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Komako Sakai
Komako (written: ) is a feminine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese actress *, Japanese suffragist, actress, dancer, theatre manager and magazine editor {{given name Japanese feminine given names Feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kanji
are the logographic Chinese characters taken from the Chinese family of scripts, Chinese script and used in the writing of Japanese language, Japanese. They were made a major part of the Japanese writing system during the time of Old Japanese and are still used, along with the subsequently-derived syllabic scripts of ''hiragana'' and ''katakana''. The characters have Japanese pronunciation, pronunciations; most have two, with one based on the Chinese sound. A few characters were invented in Japan by constructing character components derived from other Chinese characters. After World War II, Japan made its own efforts to simplify the characters, now known as shinjitai, by a process similar to China's simplified Chinese characters, simplification efforts, with the intention to increase literacy among the common folk. Since the 1920s, the Japanese government has published character lists periodically to help direct the education of its citizenry through the myriad Chinese characte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Komako Hara
was a Japanese film actress who was particularly prominent in the silent era. Her real name was Komako Kuragata. Career Born in Kanagawa Prefecture, Hara made her motion picture debut in 1924 in the film ''Rakujitsu no yume.'' At studios such as Tōa Kinema and Makino Talkie, she achieved fame specializing in starring roles playing vamps, ''dokufu'' (poison women), and yakuza molls in jidaigeki. In the sound era, she shifted to secondary roles in films by directors such as Kenji Mizoguchi, Masahiro Makino, and Keigo Kimura. She appeared in over 200 films in her career. Selected filmography * ''Rakujitsu no yume'' (落日の夢) (1924) * ''Aishō'' (愛傷) (1926) * ''The Mountain Pass of Love and Hate ''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in E ...'' (愛憎峠 Aizo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Komako Kimura
, also seen as Komaku Kimura or Komago Kimura in American newspapers, was a Japanese suffragist, actress, dancer, theater manager, and magazine editor before World War II. Her work, both literary and theatrical, shaped the women's rights and women's suffrage movement in Japan. Early life Komako Kimura was born in Tokyo on July 29, 1887 as the youngest of three sisters. She was educated in the arts from a young age, and started to learn ''Nihon buyō'' at three years old and '' kabuki'' at five. Her father, who was the chief clerk of a fire-fighting pump dealer, lost all of his money to an extortionate moneylender, forcing him to move to Taiwan to find work and leave the family behind when she was eight years old. Komako used her training in dance and theater to support her family by joining a touring theater in Kumamoto. In her early life, she went to a school founded by Junko Takezaki, where girls were not only encouraged to learn and become good, traditional Japanese wives and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Feminine Given Names
Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspora, Japanese emigrants and their descendants around the world * Japanese citizens, nationals of Japan under Japanese nationality law ** Foreign-born Japanese, naturalized citizens of Japan * Japanese writing system, consisting of kanji and kana * Japanese cuisine, the food and food culture of Japan See also * List of Japanese people * * Japonica (other) * Japonicum * Japonicus * Japanese studies Japanese studies ( Japanese: ) or Japan studies (sometimes Japanology in Europe), is a sub-field of area studies or East Asian studies involved in social sciences and humanities research on Japan. It incorporates fields such as the study of Japan ... {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
